Title: System Outage 2017 August 24
Date: 2017-08-24 00:00
Modified: 2017-08-24 00:00
Category: outages
Tags: sysadmin
Slug: outage-20170824
Authors: vaeringjar
Description: Welcome to the The Peers Community, a highly motivated community of people with a strong interest in free software and free culture.
Summary: Outage caused by DDOS.

# What happened

The peers.community and related sudomains were inaccessible, intermittently for several hours.  

# What caused it

An unidentified DDOS attack disrupted our DNS.  

# How has this been addressed 

Our hosting provider was somehow able to address the issue.  

